Temporary binder or loose-sheet or the like holder.



J. P. PETTY.

TEMPORARY BINDER 0R LOOSE SHEET OR THE LIKE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED one, 19.13.

1,148,618. Patented Aug. 3, 1915. 1

WITNESSESZ JOHN PAXTON BETTY, OF READING,'ENGLAND.

TEMPORARY BINDER OR LOOSE-SHEET OR THE LIKE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au. 3, 1915.

Application filed December 8, 1913. Serial No. 805,361.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PAXToN PETTY, a subject of His Majesty the King of England, residing at Reading, Berkshire, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders or Loose-Sheet or the like Holders, of which th following is a specification.

This invention is for improvements in temporary binders for loose leaves and the like, wherein a pair of clamping bars are associated with means for efiecting the clamping of the sheets thereby and with means functioning solely as sheet registering members.

By and in accordance with the present invention a binder of the kind referred to is produced in which the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder con tents for removal en bloc from the binder with the short engaging and registering means remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering means for removal from the binder for replacement by a fresh means or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine. The facility for replacing the sheet engaging and registering means by fresh means enables means of longer length to be employed as the binder increases in thickness and thereby the usefulness of the binder is materially promoted.

To the foregoing ends a temporary binder according to the present invention comprises in combination a pair of clamping bars,

hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and operatable to draw the clamping bars toward each other and a member longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction endwise loosely com bined with both said clamping bars and said covers to function solely as a sheet engaging and registering member. The term endwise loosely combined 7 is to be defined as meaning that the sheet engaging and registering member is free from any endwise fastening to the adjacent surface or parts of the binder against which such member lies, which would require to be loosened to release said member. Thus, in designing the binder, provision may be made for producing such a frictional resistance to endwise displacement of said member that during the ordinary use of the binder endwise creeping of the member is precluded. or

enter the hollow cover minimized to a negligible degree without defeating th object of the invention. Preferably aplurality of such members are employed, and, conveniently the sheet registering members are in the form of leather thongs having an inserted flexible steel strip, but such members may be of any suitable material which form strips which are longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction; these thongs or strips being adapted to be threaded through eyes in the clamping bars and to have their surplus portions for any given separation of the clamping bars received loosely in the binder covers which are formed hollow for this purpose.

The invention may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice as shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is an inside view of a binder in the opened position, the cover plate on the-inner side of each back being removed. Fig. 2 is a section on line m m of the binder shown by Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section corresponding to Fig. 2 but showing the binder clamping loose sheets therein, and Fig. 4 is a view of the rear portion of a sheet to be secured within the binder. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail view.

The drawings show a binder which comprises clamping bars 1, and 2, which are hinged, respectively, to the backs or covers 3, 4. These clamping bars are adapted to be drawn together to clamp the loose sheets therebetween, as by means of the longitudinally flexiblemembers 5, engaging with toothed wheels 17 (Fig. 5) rotatably mounted on a rotatable longitudinal rod 18 in the clamping bar 2, the ends of such members 5 being detachably engaged with the clamping bar 1 by the headed link 6 engaging within correspondingly shaped slots in the clamping bar 1. The members 5 attached to the clamping bar 1 pass through openings 13 in the clamping bar 2, and thence 4 where they are preferably connected to light springs 14 which pass around guide wheels 15 and are attached to a fixed point 16 of the cover 4; In this way possibility of the members 5 sagging 0r jamming, especially between the bar 2 and the cover 4, is avoided. The leather thongs 8, which function solely as sheet registering members, are loosely engaged with the clamping bars 1 and 2 by from any, endwise fastening to the parts of the binder against which they lie. For the purpose of affording such a frictional resistance to endwise displacement or creeping of the thongs 8 that during the ordinary use of the binder, the thongs will substantially keep their proper positions in the binder, the thongs 8, as depicted in the case of such a sliding disconnection.

of the outer pair, may be adapted to co-act with converging edges 12 of the covers so that the thongs are somewhat transversely flexed. Such an arrangementin no wise defeats the object of the invention and secures the said desirable control of the endwise loosely combined thongs in a very simple, inexpensive, and effective manner. The sheet registering means 8, thus combined with the binder, may be very readily removed, as when the clamping bars 1, 2, have been allowed to be moved apart by operating the member 5 and the headed links disconnected from the bar 1 in known manner, the thongs are free to be slid away from the binder, such thongs being of such a longitudinal flexibility as to readily admit By thus being able to move the thongs the sheets contained in the binder are readily adapted to be typewritten thereon by the class of typewriter for use in operating upon fiat sheets. For this purpose holes are formed in the clamping bars in known manner, so that the binder may be passed over posts secured to a table of the said typewriting machine, perforations being also formed in the loose leaves to admit of this. Vhen the binder has been placed over the posts the top cover may be removed and the thongs also removed, whereby in known manner the sheets may be slid up the posts and turned over onto posts, which with the aforesaid posts form the limbs of an inverted U-shaped member, so that any desired sheet may be placed into position for being operated on by the typewriter.

Further advantage in the present construction is present in that all the sheets contained in the binder may be removed enbloo with the sheet registering means remaining threaded therethrough which therefore permits such removed sheets and thongs tobe placed in another binder without disturbing the sheets.

The depicted construction herein described is one that I have found to work well. But itis to be understood that the invention issusceptibleto many structural variations without going beyond the scope thereof,

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A temporary binder comprising in combination a pair of clamping bars, hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and oporatable to draw the clamping bars toward each other, and a. member longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction endwise loosely combined with both said clamping bars and said covers for bridging the space between the clamping bars to function solely as a sheet engaging and registering member, whereby the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder contents for removal en bloc from the binder with the sheet engaging and registering member remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering member for removal from the binder for replacement by a fresh member, or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine, substantially as described.

2. A temporary binder comprising in combination a pair of clamping bars, hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and operatable to draw the clamping bars toward each other and a plurality of members longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction endwise loosely combined with both said clamping bars and said covers for bridging the space between the clamping bars to function solely as sheet engaging and registering members, whereby the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder contents for removal en bloc from the binder with the sheet engaging and registering members remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering members for removal from the binder for replacement by fresh members, or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine, substantially as described.

3. A temporary binder comprising in combination a pair of clamping bars, hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and operatable to draw the clamping bars toward each other, and a member longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction combined so as to be free from any endwise fastening which would require to be loosened to release the member, with both said-clamping bars and said covers for bridging the space between the clamping bars to function solely as asheet engaging and registering member, whereby the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder contents for removal en bloc from the binderwith the sheet engaging and registering member remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering member for removal from the binder for replacement by a fresh member, or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine, substantially as described.

4. Atemporary binder comprising in combination a pair of clamping bars, hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and operatable to draw the clamping bars toward each other, and a plurality of members longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction combined, so as to be free from any endwise fastening which would require to be loosened to release the members, with both said clamping bars and said covers for bridging the space between the clamping bars to function solely as sheet engaging and registering members, whereby the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder contents for removal en bloc from the binder with the sheet engaging and registering members remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering members for removal from the binder for replacement by fresh members, or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine, substantially as described.

5. temporary binder comprising in combination a pair of clamping bars, hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and operatable to draw the clamping bars toward each other, and a member longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction endwise loosely combined, subject to creeping preventing provision by flexure thereof, with both said clamping bars and said covers for bridging the space between the clamping bars to function solely Copies of this patent may be obtained for as a sheet engaging and registering member whereby the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder contents for removal en bloc from the binder with the sheet engaging and registering member remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering member for removal from the binder for replacement by a fresh member or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine substantially as described.

6. A temporary binder comprising in combination a pair of clamping bars, hinged covers associated therewith, means detachably connecting the clamping bars and 0peratable to draw the clamping bars toward each other, and a plurality of members longitudinally flexible and transversely relatively rigid in one direction endwise loosely combined, subject to creeping preventing provision by flexure thereof, with both said clamping bars and said covers for bridging the space between the clamping bars to function solely as sheet engaging and registering members, whereby the act of disconnecting the clamping bars frees (a) the binder contents for removal en bloc from the binder with the sheet engaging and registering members remaining threaded therethrough or (b) the sheet engaging and registering members for removal from the binder for replacement by a fresh member, or for enabling the binder to be adapted for use with a typewriting or billing machine, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN PAXTON PETTY.

Witnesses:

ALBERT GEORGE BARNES, WILLIAM THOMAS DALTON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

